Fabian M. Suchanek

Full professor
Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris
“Data, Intelligence, and Graphs” (DIG) team, Office 4C20
19 place Marguerite Perey, 91120 Palaiseau, France

https://suchanek.name
GIVENNAME@suchanek.name
Public key rsa4096/CAA83288

Research Interests

Knowledge Bases, Information Extraction, Semantic Web, Automated Reasoning, Knowledge Mining

Professional Experience

2016	Full professor at Télécom Paris University, Paris, France
	Télécom Paris is part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris, ranked top 50 in the world
2013	Associate professor at Télécom Paris University, Paris, France
2012	Junior research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
2010	Postdoctoral Researcher (reporting to Dr. Serge Abiteboul) at INRIA Saclay, Paris region, France
2009	Visiting Researcher (reporting to Dr. Rakesh Agrawal) at Microsoft Research in Mountain View, CA, USA

Education

2014	French Habilitation (HDR), Sorbonne University, Paris, France
2014	German Habilitation (Venia Legendi), Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
2008	PhD in Computer Science (supervised by Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weikum), Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
2005	Master of Science in Computer Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany
2003	Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Awards

2022	French Open Science Award
2021	Best paper award of ESWC 2021
2018	“Test of Time Award” of The Web Conference (WWW 2018), for our work on YAGO
2018	Best research paper nominee of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2018)
2015 & 2016 & 2017 & 2019	Top-evaluated lecture in the master's program “Data&Knowledge”
2018	Second top-evaluated lecture in the master's program “Data&Knowledge”
2017	Prominent Paper Award of the Artificial Intelligence Journal
2015	Outstanding Reviewer Award of the Int. Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2014)
2014	Best Reviewer Award of the PIKM 2014 workshop, out of 23 reviewers
2013	Top 3 lecture in terms of teaching quality in Computer Science at Saarland University
2013	Best student paper award at the World Wide Web conference (WWW 2013)
2012	Best paper runner up of the Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP 2012)
2011	Best demo award at the World Wide Web conference (WWW 2011)
2010	Honorable Mention of the SIGMOD Dissertation Award
2010	Otto Hahn Medal, awarded to 30 PhD graduates each year in the Max Planck Society
2005	Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the PhD
2005	Günter Hotz Award, awarded to 3 out of ca. 250 Computer Science graduates at U Saarland

Grants

Year	Grantor	Project Name	Topic	Role	Funding
2021	Hi Paris	(PhD scholarship)	Rule Mining	Advisor	150k €
2020	DataIA	OTELO	Speech analysis	Contributor	150k €
2019	ANR	NoRDF	NLP	PI	1.3m €
2018	Télécom Paris	(PhD scholarship)	Explainable AI	Advisor	100k €
2017	ENS Lyon	(PhD scholarship)	Knowledge bases	Advisor	100k €
2017	ANR	DirtyData	Machine Learning	Contributor	500k €
2016	ENS Cachan	(PhD scholarship)	Rule mining	Advisor	100k €
2016	DigiCosme	MetaCog	Brain imaging	Contributor	125k €
2016	ANR	DICOS	Schema mining	PI	250k €
2014	DigiCosme	SEDA	Information Extraction	PI	250k €
2010	MPG/Otto Hahn	Ontologies Group	Knowledge Bases	PI	<320k €

ANR = Agence Nationale de Recherche, the French National Research Agency
PI = I am the principal investigator; Advisor = the student competed for the funding, I advise the PhD

Students, engineers, and postdocs

Current

Deep Learning

Nedeljko Radulović (PhD student, 2018-, co-advised with Albert Bifet)

Rule Mining

François Amat (PhD student, 2021-)

NoRDF project

Lihu Chen (PhD student, 2019-, co-advised with Gaël Varoquaux)
Pierre-Henri Paris (postdoc, 2020-)
Chadi Helwe (PhD student, 2021-, co-advised with Chloé Clavel)
Cyril Chhun (PhD student, 2021-, co-advised with Chloé Clavel)
Zacchary Sadeddine (PhD student, 2022-)
Simon Coumes (PhD student, 2022-)
...plus several open PhD positions

OTELO project

Mathilde Hutin (postdoc, 2020-, co-advised with Ioana Vasilescu)

Former

Yaru Wu (postdoc, 2020-2021, co-advised with Ioana Vasilescu, now at U Caen)
Thomas Pellisier Tanon (PhD student, 2017-2020, co-advised with Antoine Amarilli, now at his start-up “Lexistems”)
Jonathan Lajus (PhD student, 2016-2020, now a highschool teacher)
Julien Romero (PhD student, 2017-2020, co-advised with Nicoleta Preda, now at Télécom SudParis)
Jérôme Dockès (PhD student, 2016-2019, co-advised with Gaël Varoquaux, now at U Montreal)
Camille Bourgaux (Postdoc, 2017-2018; now at CNRS)
Thomas Rebele (PhD student, 2015-2018; now at Orchestra Networks)
Katerina Tzompanaki (Postdoc in 2016, now associate professor at U Cergy)
Danai Symeonidou (Postdoc in 2015, now at INRA Montpellier)
Luis Galárraga (PhD 2012-2016, now at INRIA Rennes)

I have also been a reviewer or examinator for the following doctoral theses: Ndapandula Nakashole (2012, Saarland University), Bilyana Taneva (2013, Saarland University), Simon Razniewski (2014, University of Bolzano), Benjamin Roth (2014, Saarland University), Ioana Ileana (2014, Télécom Paris University), Davide Mottin (2015, University of Trento), Arnab Dutta (2015, University of Mannheim), Julien Corman (2015, Toulouse University), Erdal Kuzey (2017, Saarland University), Dimitra Papadimitriou (2017, University of Trento), Abdelfettah Feliachi (2017, Université Paris-Est), Amit Gupta (2017, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Paul Lagrée (2017, Université Paris-Sud), Vasilis Efthymiou (2017, University of Crete), Toni Grütze (2018, University of Potsdam), Benjamin Spencer (2018, University of Oxford), Matteo Lissandrini (2018, University of Trento), Subhi Issa (2019, CNAM), Emir Muñoz (2020, University of Galway), Shikhar Vashishth (2020, IIT Bangalore), Enhui Huan (2021, Ecole Polytechnique), Naser Ahmadi (EURECOM, 2021), Paweł Guzewicz (2021, INRIA), Mohammed Saeed (EURECOM 2022).

I have also been a habilitation reviewer for Konstantin Todorov (2020, University of Montpellier).

Scientific profile

My main scientific project is the YAGO knowledge base. The original paper from 2007 has attracted more than 4000 citations so far. The knowledge base is used in numerous projects around the world, among others DBpedia and the IBM Watson Project. The knowledge base is continuously being developed, with half a dozen follow-up publications.

I have since advanced also into the application, the mining, and the maintenance of knowledge. Therefore, a large part of my citations come from publications in very diverse areas: information extraction, Web services, watermarking of knowledge bases, information retrieval, knowledge mining, ontology matching, social tagging, inductive logic programming, efficient querying, computational creativity, data quality estimation, named entity recognition, and medical imaging.

Publications: 110
Citations: 14,000
h-index: 38
i10-index: 72
Collaborations with 100 people from 30 institutes and 9 countries

All my publications are available on my homepage.

Teaching

I teach courses on Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, Web technologies, and Softskills.

2014 -	Teaching at Télécom Paris, France, with 150-200 contact hours per year
2022	Summer school “Artificial Intelligence in Bergen”
2020	Summer school “Data Science and Engineering” at the East China Normal University (remotely)
2019	Summer school “Reasoning Web” at Bolzano University, Italy
2017	One week at Bucharest Polytechnical University, Romania
2016	One course at the RUSSIR Summer school in Saratov, Russia
2013	One course at the Saarland University, Germany
2011	One course at 3 universities in Senegal

All courses are available on my homepage.

Service Activities

2023	Tutorial co-chair of WSDM 2023
2022	External expert for the German Humboldt Foundation
2022	External expert for the German Research Foundation
2022	External expert for the Dutch Research Foundation
2022	PC co-chair of the ESWC 2022 conference
2019	Jury for a professor position at École Polytechnique, France
2018	Treasurer of the The Web Conference 2019 (WWW 2019)
2017	Co-organizer of the New Researcher Symposium at SIGMOD 2017
2017	Referee for the ERC Consolidator Grants
2016	Jury for a professor position at Université de Caen, France
2016	Co-organizer of the New Researcher Symposium at SIGMOD 2016
2015	Demo chair of BDA (French national database conference)
2015	External expert for the Czech Science Foundation
2015	External expert for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
2015	PC co-chair of the Web DB Workshop at SIGMOD 2015
2014	PC co-chair of the Knowledge Extraction workshop at NIPS 2014
2013	PC co-chair of the Knowledge Extraction workshop at CIKM 2013
2013	PC co-chair of the PhD Workshop at CIKM 2013
2013	Guest editor of a special issue of the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics
2012	PC co-chair of the Knowledge Extraction workshop at NAACL 2012
2012	PC co-chair of the PhD Workshop at CIKM 2012
2011	PC co-chair of the PhD Workshopat CIKM 2011

I have been reviewing for the following journals and conferences: Machine Learning 2022, LREC 2022, AIML 2021, AKBC 2021, ESWC 2021, VLDB 2020, COLING 2020, AKBC 2020, WWW 2020, SIGMOD 2019, WWW 2019, CIKM 2018, SIGMOD 2018, IJCAI 2018, WWW 2018, EMNLP 2017, ISWC 2017, EMNLP 2016, CIKM 2016, IJCAI 2016, EDBT 2016, ESWC 2016, ICDE 2016, VLDB journal 2016, WWW 2016, WSDM 2016, Communications of the ACM 2016, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2015, Journal of Web Semantics 2015, CIKM 2015, ESWC 2015, WSDM 2015, ACL 2014, WSDM 2014, WWW 2013, ESWC 2013, NAACL 2013, Semantic Web Journal 2013, EDBT 2013, ICDE 2013, WSDM 2013, TODS 2013, VLDB 2013, EMNLP 2012, ESWC 2012, ACL 2012, EDBT/ICDT 2012, WSDM 2012, Communications of the ACM 2012, WWW 2012, TKDE 2012, EDBT 2011, TKDE 2011, TODS 2011, Artifical Intelligence journal 2011, BDA 2011, WWW 2011, AAAI 2010, WEBIST 2010, Journal of Web Semantics 2010, Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2010, WSDM 2010, ICDE 2010, EACL 2009, ESWC 2008, TKDE 2007, SIGKDD 2006 — plus workshops.

Invited Talks

I have given the following invited talks (seminar = I was the only speaker; invited = there were other invited speakers; keynote = there were non-invited speakers).

2022	University of Osnabrück/Germany	(seminar)
2022	INRIA Paris/France	(seminar)
2022	LinkedIn, San Francisco/USA (remote)	(seminar)
2021	Megagon.ai (Recruit Group), Mountain View/USA (remote)	(seminar)
2021	Huawei Paris	(seminar)
2021	Workshop on Deep Learning for NLP	(keynote)
2020	French AI conference PFIA	(keynote)
2020	Schlumberger/France	(seminar)
2020	University of Galway/Ireland	(seminar)
2020	University College Dublin/Ireland	(seminar)
2019	Wikimedia Showcase Talk	(invited)
2019	EDOC Conference, Paris/France	(keynote)
2019	50th anniversary of Computer Science in Saarbrücken/Germany	(invited)
2019	IBM Almaden, US	(seminar)
2019	University of California at Santa Cruz, US	(seminar)
2019	INRIA Saclay, for the French minister of defense	(invited)
2018	Oxford University, UK	(seminar)
2018	Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany	(seminar)
2018	École des Ponts et Chaussées, France	(invited)
2017	EPFL, Switzerland	(seminar)
2017	Wikidata Conference, Germany	(keynote)
2017	Bucharest Polytechnical University, Romania	(seminar)
2017	Kazan University, Russia	(seminar)
2017	Chelyabinsk University, Russia	(seminar)
2017	WSDM Cup Workshop	(keynote)
2016	Toronto University, Canada	(seminar)
2016	Waterloo University, Canada	(seminar)
2016	IBM Zürich, Switzerland	(seminar)
2016	Leopoldina Journalist College, Germany	(invited)
2016	IBM Almaden, California, USA	(seminar)
2016	Facebook, California, USA	(seminar)
2016	Apple, California, USA	(seminar)
2016	IBM Zürich, Switzerland	(seminar)
2016	Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany	(seminar)
2016	Google Zürich, Switzerland	(seminar)
2016	Aalborg University, Denmark	(seminar)
2016	Wiki Workshop	(invited)
2016	French Workshop on Quality of Linked Data	(keynote)
2016	Paris 5 University, France	(seminar)
2016	SNIPS Seminar on Context-Sensitive Search	(invited)
2015	Workshop on Information and Communication Systems	(invited)
2015	25th anniversary of the Max Planck Institute, Germany	(invited)
2014	KET workshop	(keynote)
2015	Central Bank of Brazil	(seminar)
2015	University of Bolzano, Italy	(seminar)
2014	EGC Conference	(keynote)
2014	New York Knowledge Engineering Meetup	(invited)
2014	APWeb Conference	(invited)
2014	AHA Workshop	(invited)
2014	University of Trento, Italy	(seminar)
2014	University of Bolzano, Italy	(seminar)
2014	East China Normal University, Shanghai, China	(seminar)
2014	Stanford, California, USA	(invited)
2014	INRA, Paris, France	(seminar)
2013	Yahoo Inc., California, USA	(seminar)
2013	Google Inc., California, USA	(seminar)
2013	Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, California, USA	(seminar)
2013	Singapore Management University, Singapore	(seminar)
2012	Webdam-Modas Workshop	(invited)
2012	WOLE Workshop at ISWC 2012	(keynote)
2011	Gaston Berger University, Senegal	(seminar)
2011	Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK	(seminar)
2011	University of Grenoble, France	(seminar)
2010	SeCo workshop	(invited)
2010	University of Bolzano, Italy	(seminar)
2010	University of Amsterdam, Netherlands	(seminar)
2010	INRIA Saclay, France	(seminar)
2010	Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK	(seminar)
2010	University of Oxford, UK	(seminar)
2009	Politecnico di Milano, Italy	(seminar)
2008	Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, California, USA	(seminar)
2008	University of Karlsruhe, Germany	(seminar)
2008	University of Washington, USA	(seminar)
2008	L3S Research Center, Hannover, Germany	(seminar)
2008	University of Osnabrück, Germany	(seminar)
2008	DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany	(seminar)

In addition, I have given several tutorials at international conferences (WWW 2022, ISWC 2021, VLDB 2021, KR 2021, WWW 2015, VLDB 2014, SIGMOD 2013, ICDE 2013, EDBT 2011, IJCAI 2011, CIKM 2010, DASFAA 2009), mostly about knowledge bases, information extraction, and the Semantic Web.

Organizational Activities

2020 - 2021	Responsible for the PhD track Computer Science at IP Paris
2019 - 2021	Vice-president of the Computer Science Department of IP Paris
2019 - 2021	Responsible for the 9 master's programs in Computer Science at IP Paris
2019	Responsible for the master's program “DataAI” at IP Paris
2017 -	Co-responsible for the Continuing Education program in Data Science at Telecom Paris
2017 - 2018	Responsible for the 21 master's programs in Computer Science at U Paris-Saclay
2014 - 2016	Co-/Vice-responsible for the 21 master's programs in Computer Science at U Paris-Saclay
2014 - 2018	Co-responsible for the calendar harmonisation at U Paris-Saclay
2013 - 2020	Responsible of the master's program “Data & Knowledge” at U Paris-Saclay
2012 - 2013	Representative of the Scientific Staff of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics

IP Paris = Institut Polytechnique de Paris, a compound university that comprises Télécom Paris
U Paris-Saclay = Paris-Saclay University, a compound university that comprised Télécom Paris

Languages

German	fluent (mother tongue)
English	fluent (language of teaching, 1 year in the US)
French	fluent (language of teaching, 9 years in France)
Italian	good knowledge (8 semesters of study, Unicert 2)
Romanian	reasonable knowledge (studying at A2 level)
Spanish	rudimentary knowledge (8 semesters of study, Unicert 2, but long ago)
Latin	knowledge at homeopathic level (3 years at school, Latinum, very long ago)

Extracurricular Activities

2013 - 2019	Teaching a 6 year dancing course at Télécom Paris, France
2016	Teaching a 7 week ballroom dancing class at the American University of Paris
2013	Teaching a 14 week dancing course at the sports center of Saarland University
2010 - 2011	Teaching a 52 week dancing course at Télécom Paris, France
2008	Teaching an 18 week dancing course at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
2007	Teaching a 10 week dancing course at the Max-Planck Institute for Informatics

Personal

I am interested in religion (see my Atheist Bible), university politics (see my blog Fluctuat et Mergitur), ballroom dancing, traveling, global poverty, and internet security.